Download or read book Knee High by the 4th of July written by Jess Lourey and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's so wrong with admiring from a distance? Mira's quirky puppy love for Chief Wenonga, a well-muscled fiberglass statue in her Minnesota small town, might be a safer love pursuit than online dating. But when the 23-foot Chief goes missing from his cement base, Mira's not the only citizen to be crushed. The town of Battle Lake is celebrating their statue's 25th anniversary and no amount of blue, sugar-soaked popcorn balls at Wenonga Days can uplift their gloomy mood. But when Mira runs into a dead body, the town has more pressing issues. Mira's second biggest crush, organic gardening god and dead ringer for Brad Pitt–Johnny Leeson–has disappeared. Her luck with men is running out, and a killer might be moving in. With something of her own to hide, Mira hopes she can avoid the police long enough to track down the object of her mega-crush–but is Mira trailing a statue-thief, a kidnapper, or a murderer? Praise: "Mira . . . is an amusing heroine in a town full of quirky characters."—Kirkus Reviews "[The] humor transcends both genders and makes for a delightful romp."—Fergus Falls Journal "Lourey's rollicking good cozy planted me in the heat of a Minnesota summer for a laugh-out-loud mystery ride."—Leann Sweeney, author of the Yellow Rose Mystery Series

Download or read book Knee High by the Fourth of July written by Jean Tennant and published by Shapato Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More stories of growing up in and around small towns in the Midwest.

Download or read book The Growing Seasons written by Samuel Hynes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Princeton University professor and Marine Corps veteran recounts his Great Depression-era boyhood, during which he accompanied his father to numerous cities and farms in search of work, lost his mother and gained a stepmother, and experienced the temptations of pre-war adolescence. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Download or read book Knee High by the 4th of July written by Herman G. Willms (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 13 Colonies written by Robert Shuster and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wide Blue Yonder written by Jean Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award finalist for her story collection Who Do You Love, Jean Thompson towers into the stratosphere with her new novel, Wide Blue Yonder. It is the summer of 1999, and something big and bad is coming to Springfield, Illinois, "the place the Weather lived." Wide Blue Yonder is a novel about weather in all its permutations -- climatic, emotional, even metaphysical. Our guides through this summer of blazing heat and fearsome storms compose an unlikely quartet, each preparing in some measure for the end of the world. Uncle Harvey believes he is the Weather Channel's "Local Forecast." Yet even an arsenal of meteorological facts and figures can't stanch his existential fears. Harvey's niece, Josie, is fixed with a different predicament. She's seventeen, with nowhere to get to in the Land of Lincoln except into deep trouble. Josie's mother, Elaine, feigns cheerful efficiency, desperately masking a far more urgent quest. And then there's the loner Rolando, who hails from Los Angeles. A human storm system fueled by boundless rage, Rolando is on course to make Springfield the ground zero of his wrath. Newsweek memorably described Thompson's previous collection, Who Do You Love, as "a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one." Wide Blue Yonder burns brighter, yet moves in the same mysterious ways.

Download or read book Return to Reason written by Stephen Edelston Toulmin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Toulmin argues that the potential for reason to improve our lives has been hampered by a serious imbalance in our pursuit of knowledge. The centuries-old dominance of rationality has diminished the value of reasonableness. Toulmin issues a powerful call to redress the balance between rationality and reasonableness.

Download or read book Love and Industry written by Sonya Huber and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonya Huber, author of the award-winning Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System , offers a candid, lyrical look inside the unsung world of exurban Illinois. New Lenox, Illinois, is a

Download or read book Coming Home written by Susan Thayer Kelley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming Home is a book about life’s unexpected changes, dealing with them, and coming to the realization of what is truly important in life and how to be happy. Justin and Jackie Jacob have just separated, with Jackie taking Jesse, their daughter and heading to Illinois to live, back to where Jackie’s family lives. Jackie is devastated by their breakup but is determined to get through it, even though she is uncertain about the future. However, because she feels her family will give her the support and help she so desperately needs, she is certain she is fleeing to a safe place. After arriving in Illinois, she reconnects with her parents and older sister and her family. Then Jackie and Jesse head to Jackie’s grandparent’s house to visit them where an unexpected event happens that will change everything for both her and her daughter. And just when she believes everything is working out for the better for both their futures, another very unexpected event happens that shakes her to her bones, causing her to once again contemplate a change.

Download or read book Prairie Memories written by Gail Cunningham Scheele and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following stories were written by Gail Cunningham Scheele and tell of her life growing up on the prairie of South Dakota. The story-telling started when a friend’s daughter asked if she had any good stories about her and her mother growing up together. Her mother had just passed away, and any story would be a comfort to her. After writing a few stories for her, Gail thought maybe she would write a few more to hand down to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She didn’t know if they would be interested but thought it would be good for them to know what life was like when she was growing up and how different it was from their lives today. Gail spent the last few years of her life writing and rewriting her stories even though her eye sight was failing due to macular degeneration.

Download or read book Lemonade written by ,DSK and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing through Schizophrenic trauma, David has created an enduring fragmentary world. It is a written testament to the author's survival. There are tensions between empire and the subaltern, prohibition and liberty, the professions and freedom, North America and South America, and so on. I hope these tales delight, amuse, and entertain.

Download or read book Communicating with Plants written by Jen Frey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide to Plant communication • Explains the synergistic process of communicating with a Plant and how the Plants help us overcome anxiety, grief, fears, and limiting beliefs and teach us to trust, forgive, and embrace self-love • Shares teachings from a variety of Plants such as Yarrow, Mugwort, Maple, Dandelion, Poison Ivy, and Japanese Hops • Presents step-by-step activities and practices that allow you to actualize each Plant’s teaching in an immediate way Everyone has the ability to consciously communicate with Plants. Jen Frey shows that if we are willing to listen, we can hear the Plants speak to our Hearts and teach us how to heal. With the support of our Plant allies, we can be our truest selves and remember our intrinsic wholeness. In this step-by-step guide, Frey shows how to awaken your ability to directly receive the unique wisdom and healing gifts of Plants. She describes how communicating with Plants is more like a communion than an exchange of words. The primary language we share with Plants is through the Heart, and Plant communication brings an expansion of Heart intelligence and emotional growth. She explains how the Plants help us overcome anxiety, grief, fears, and limiting beliefs and teach us to trust, forgive, embrace self-Love, and enjoy the sweetness of life. Sharing teachings she has received from a variety of Plants, such as Yarrow, Mugwort, Maple, Dandelion, Poison Ivy, and Japanese Hops, Frey follows each Plant ally’s wisdom with a step-by-step activity or practice. She includes both native and invasive Plants because all Plant Spirits have valuable lessons to share. She concludes with Tulsi, showing how this Plant is essential to helping us recover our Sacred nature, especially in a time of great Earth changes. With the wisdom of Plant Spirits, we can have support and guidance whenever we need it and live in co-creative partnership with Nature.

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Download or read book Simple Scrapbooks written by Stacy Julian and published by Primedia Scrapbooking. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxes of family photographs may invite conflicting feelings of joy and guilt--how to assemble all of those pictures in a meaningful way for the entire family to enjoy? Julian's new book will inspire the scrapbook enthusiast regardless of skill level to try something different: a simple scrapbook.

Download or read book Romancing Nadine written by Amy Lillard and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartwarming series from Amy Lillard, three generations of women find the Oklahoma Amish community of Wells Landing a heaven-sent opportunity to take new leaps of faith . . . Wife, widow, mother, and grandmother—sixty-something Nadine Burkhart is everything a sensible Amish woman is supposed to be. She’s moved to Wells Landing to give her daughter-in-law and granddaughter a fresh start—not herself. So as far as she’s concerned, good-hearted farmer Amos Fisher should find something better to do than try to draw her out, be there when she needs help—and make her believe in love for the first time . . . A friendly but solitary man, Amos is realizing there’s more to life than work. Although he hasn’t courted in years, Nadine’s honesty makes him long to know her better—and understand her standoffishness. But when everything he tries fails to soften her stubbornness, he’ll just have to trust his heart that real, true, and utterly impractical love will prevail—for a lifetime . . . Praise for Amy Lillard and her Wells Landing novels “An inspirational story of romance, faith, and trust . . . will appeal to fans of Wanda Brunstetter and Beverly Lewis.” —Library Journal “Fans of inspirational romance will appreciate Lillard’s vivid characters and positive message.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Heartland written by David Hagberg and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1983-01-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Country--One Crop--Feeds The World. American grain. The Soviet Union means to change that. The Russians understand, as America does not, that control of the world's grain means control of the world. Only young, fast-rising tycoon, Kenneth Newman, stands between the United States and starvation. But he doesn't know it. Yet. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Catch Me the Wind written by CLARA GEHRON WILLIS and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is fiction for the authors convenience to weave an important lesson in our time. Based upon a real lake crafted in a swamp many years ago, the authors great great grandfather could have been one of the horse-drawn scraper drivers. This lake provided water for a canal system in the area before the railroads took over. The lake became a valuable source of clean water for the towns growing around it. It also became important for recreation. But as the population grew, vacationing at the lake brought about development of landings and vacation homes, and the pressure on the ecology of the lake began to esculate. The public noticed the increased restrictions on the use of the lake. Finally, the safety of the lake was threatened and our story is related. Joshua MacDonell, a recent graduate of Ohio State, arrived to take on the job of Conservation Officer. Laticia Welton, a single mom, came home from St. Louis to see her Dad who had lived alone in Southacre since her Mom died of cancer. Saving The Blue joins Josh and Laticia in this special love story.